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After George Lucas finished work on 2005's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, he wanted to look back on the now-completed Star Wars Saga through an entirely new point-of-view: isolating stills, or frames, from each of the six Star Wars films, focusing on them intensely as works of photography and design and reproducing them in a book.

For two years, Lucas went through more than 200,000 frames per film, eventually editing more than a million frames down to the 1,416 images that now comprise Star Wars: Frames, an essential part of the Saga and a testament to the hard work, craftsmanship and dedication evident in every frame of every film.

Within the pages of Frames, iconic and unexpected moments from each film reveal abstractions and deepen appreciations of the films' artistry.

Star Wars: Frames, previously available only as a $3,000 limited edition, presents these stills in a new, lower-priced edition, bringing together Lucas's personal shot-by-shot selections from all six Star Wars films into a lavishly designed two-volume hardcover set--one volume for the Original Trilogy and one volume for the Prequel Trilogy.

For collectors and fans, Star Wars: Frames is a more affordable edition of this grand project devoted to the art and craftsmanship of a cinematic phenomenon, an essentially photographic and yet filmic, look at the cinema of George Lucas, printed with the highest production values, the ultimate Star Wars book and collector's piece.

About the Author

George Lucas is the founder and chairman of Lucasfilm. Guillermo del Toro made his feature directorial debut in 1993 with Cronos. Since then, he has gone on to direct Mimic, The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II, and Pan's Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards(R). His novels The Strain and The Fall, with Chuck Hogan, are international best sellers.

"Cinematography is not about technology. It's about art, it's about taste. In the end it's about understanding your craft."- GEORGE LUCAS""FRAMES" is about allowing the reader the time and the space to examine fully that ("cinematography") craft."- J.W. RINZLER, Executive Editor, LucasFilmAuthor of "The Making of Star Wars"